Re: "APIC error on CPUx" - what does this mean?

From: Pozsar Balazs (pozsy@sch.bme.hu)
Date: Thu Jan 03 2002 - 18:21:52 EST


But what do these messages mean?

Are they some kind of retryable errors?
Do they have any consequences?

Thanks.

On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> > I just noticed the following events in my system log:
> >
> > Jan 3 14:03:39 mercury kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 00(02)
> > Jan 3 14:03:39 mercury kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 00(02)
> >
> > Please let me know if I can provide any additional info needed to diagnose
> > this error.
>
> The occasional APIC error is fine (its logging a hardware event - probably
> something that caused enough noise to lose a message and retry it). The
> APIC bus is designed to stand these occasional errors
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